NSA is keeping logs of phones calls in the US, page 1

I voted yes for this and I just read pretty much the same article on CNN.

The White House defended its overall eavesdropping program and said no domestic surveillance is conducted without court approval.

Um correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a big todo about this being done without court approval?

"The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks," said Dana Perino, the deputy White House press secretary, who added that appropriate members of Congress have been briefed on intelligence activities.

So tens of millions of Americans are terrorist or in cahoots with terrorist?And only use the phone and internet to do this cahooting?

And who are the appropriate members of congress that were notified or briefed on these intelligence activities?Should congress as a whole be told?Shouldn't the American people be told?I for one am not amused that my phonecalls or internet activity has possibly been listened in on or even just the numbers I dialed recorded.

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont said

"Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda?" Leahy asked. "These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything ... Where does it stop?"

The program does not involve listening to or taping the calls. Instead it documents who talks to whom in personal and business calls, whether local or long distance, by tracking which numbers are called, the newspaper said.

So I guess the feds have the al Qaeda white and yellow pages and just wants to make sure none of us Americans are calling them?

Welcome to the war on terror ladies and gentlemen...Don't worry if you aren't American then you have nothing to fear

Those of you that agree with this and will come on here to try and flame me or say I'm just paranoid...that's fine you have that right..But before you do think of it as you call your grandmother for that pie recipe..now its recorded that you called that number..or you call your doc to get some more cream to take care of that nasty rash and now that number you just dialed is recorded.Are you,your granny,or your doctor a terrorist?

To congress..It's nice to see you're actually taking an interest in the American people instead of sticking your fat noses into other countries' affairs for a change but this isn't exactly what the American people had in mind...If you continue to treat Americans like terrorist then sooner or later we will become your terrorist and nothing not even your Commander in chief who thinks that some god is on his side will be able to save you once you piss us off alittle more.But all this phone and internet monitoring tells me that you're already afraid of us.
Just remember we hired you just as easily as we can fire you..The choice will be yours as to how easy or hard you make it on yourselves when we come to fire you.

Simon